Princeton University Athletics
Three Tigers Set For Patriot All-America Event
December 23, 2025 | Women's Golf
A trio of Princeton women's golfers are set to compete at The Patriot All-American event to be held December 29-31 at The Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Parl, Ariz.
Olivia Duan, Thanana Kotchasanmanee and Sarah Lim will all represent Princeton at this prestigious event which brings together many of the elite collegiate golfers to honor disabled and fallen members of the armed forces or first responders.
All three will be making their debuts at The Patriot which is a 54-hole stroke play event. Invitations to The Patriot are extended by the Golf Coaches Association of America each year, and Princeton's contingent mark the only three Ivy League women's golfers invited for 2025.
One of the special components of The Patriot is that each player will carry a special bag for the week which honors disabled for fallen member of the armed services or first responders. Each player receives his/her bag at the Opening Ceremonies during a special presentation.
Olivia Duan -- Air Force Captain Thomas Gramith
Air Force Captain Thomas Gramith, 27, of Eagan, Minnesota, was assigned to the 336th Fighter Squadron out of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, NC. He died on July 18, 2009 in an F-15E crash near the Ghazni province, Afghanistan. A team of U.S. and coalition forces immediately responded to the crash site, secured it and recovered the Airmen. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star. Capt. Gramith was born in St. Paul, MN and attended St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights. He attended North Dakota State University where he earned a degree in aeronautical engineering. He was also a member of the ROTC program and entered the Air Force in 2005 as a 2nd Lieutenant. Colonel Clark Wigley, Capt Gramith's first Professor of Aerospace Studies reflected, "Tom, like so many before him, was an uncommon young man who will certainly be missed. He died doing something he loved and probably would have done it for free knowing how much he looked forward to being an aviator."
Capt. Gramith is survived by his wife Angie and twin daughters Stella and Eva.
Thanana Kotchasanmanee -- Police Officer Robert Zane
Police Officer Robert Zane, 45, of New York, NY died on May 12, 2009, from illnesses he contracted while inhaling toxic materials as he participated in the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Officer Zane died of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (kidney, lungs, brain and vertebrae). Officer Zane had served with the New York City Police Department for 16 years and was assigned to the Transit Bureau.
Islip Town and the Sayville community honored Zane with a street renaming and dedication ceremony in September 2020. The intersection of Versa Place and Lowell Road was renamed Robert A. Zane Jr. Way. Officer Zane posthumously received the NYPD Distinguished Service Medal in 2011 and his name has been added to memorials across the country including the 9/11 Responders Remembered Park, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the New York City Police Officers memorial wall. He is survived by his wife Tracy and their two children, Robert "Bobby" Zane III, and Abigail.
Sarah Lim -- U.S. Marine Corps Major Megan McClung
U.S. Marine Corps Major Megan McClung, 34, of Coupeville, WA, was assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, I MEF, Camp Pendleton, Cali. She died December 6, 2006, while escorting Newsweek journalists into downtown Ramadi when a massive improvised explosive device destroyed her Humvee, instantly killing McClung and two others. While in high school and college, Maj McClung competed as a gymnast. She was also a triathlete (having competed in six Ironman competitions) and a marathoner. Maj McClung graduated from the Naval Academy and was commissioned in 1995. She served on active duty until 2004, when she entered the Reserves. She joined Kellogg, Brown, and Root, an American engineering and construction company and worked in Iraq as a private contractor. In 2006, she returned to active duty with the Marines and was deployed to Iraq as a public affairs officer with the I Marine Expeditionary Force. Major Megan McClung was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on December 19, 2006. Her headstone bears a phrase she coined while training military personnel on how to conduct interviews with the press: "Be Bold. Be Brief. Be Gone."
Olivia Duan, Thanana Kotchasanmanee and Sarah Lim will all represent Princeton at this prestigious event which brings together many of the elite collegiate golfers to honor disabled and fallen members of the armed forces or first responders.
All three will be making their debuts at The Patriot which is a 54-hole stroke play event. Invitations to The Patriot are extended by the Golf Coaches Association of America each year, and Princeton's contingent mark the only three Ivy League women's golfers invited for 2025.
One of the special components of The Patriot is that each player will carry a special bag for the week which honors disabled for fallen member of the armed services or first responders. Each player receives his/her bag at the Opening Ceremonies during a special presentation.
Olivia Duan -- Air Force Captain Thomas Gramith
Air Force Captain Thomas Gramith, 27, of Eagan, Minnesota, was assigned to the 336th Fighter Squadron out of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, NC. He died on July 18, 2009 in an F-15E crash near the Ghazni province, Afghanistan. A team of U.S. and coalition forces immediately responded to the crash site, secured it and recovered the Airmen. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star. Capt. Gramith was born in St. Paul, MN and attended St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights. He attended North Dakota State University where he earned a degree in aeronautical engineering. He was also a member of the ROTC program and entered the Air Force in 2005 as a 2nd Lieutenant. Colonel Clark Wigley, Capt Gramith's first Professor of Aerospace Studies reflected, "Tom, like so many before him, was an uncommon young man who will certainly be missed. He died doing something he loved and probably would have done it for free knowing how much he looked forward to being an aviator."
Capt. Gramith is survived by his wife Angie and twin daughters Stella and Eva.
Thanana Kotchasanmanee -- Police Officer Robert Zane
Police Officer Robert Zane, 45, of New York, NY died on May 12, 2009, from illnesses he contracted while inhaling toxic materials as he participated in the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Officer Zane died of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (kidney, lungs, brain and vertebrae). Officer Zane had served with the New York City Police Department for 16 years and was assigned to the Transit Bureau.
Islip Town and the Sayville community honored Zane with a street renaming and dedication ceremony in September 2020. The intersection of Versa Place and Lowell Road was renamed Robert A. Zane Jr. Way. Officer Zane posthumously received the NYPD Distinguished Service Medal in 2011 and his name has been added to memorials across the country including the 9/11 Responders Remembered Park, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the New York City Police Officers memorial wall. He is survived by his wife Tracy and their two children, Robert "Bobby" Zane III, and Abigail.
Sarah Lim -- U.S. Marine Corps Major Megan McClung
U.S. Marine Corps Major Megan McClung, 34, of Coupeville, WA, was assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, I MEF, Camp Pendleton, Cali. She died December 6, 2006, while escorting Newsweek journalists into downtown Ramadi when a massive improvised explosive device destroyed her Humvee, instantly killing McClung and two others. While in high school and college, Maj McClung competed as a gymnast. She was also a triathlete (having competed in six Ironman competitions) and a marathoner. Maj McClung graduated from the Naval Academy and was commissioned in 1995. She served on active duty until 2004, when she entered the Reserves. She joined Kellogg, Brown, and Root, an American engineering and construction company and worked in Iraq as a private contractor. In 2006, she returned to active duty with the Marines and was deployed to Iraq as a public affairs officer with the I Marine Expeditionary Force. Major Megan McClung was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on December 19, 2006. Her headstone bears a phrase she coined while training military personnel on how to conduct interviews with the press: "Be Bold. Be Brief. Be Gone."
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